''Ulverton'' is the first novel by British author

Adam Thorpe Adam Thorpe (born 5 December 1956) is a British poet and novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, ...

. The work recounts 300 years of history in the fictional village of Ulverton, stylistically representing the literary eras of the day."English literature." ''

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'', 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Access Date September 13, 2008. www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/188217/English-literature. The novel won the

Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize The Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize was presented from 1967 until 2003 by the Royal Society of Literature for the best regional novel of the year. It is named after the novelist Winifred Holtby who was noted for her novels set in the rural scenes ...

in 1992.

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1992 British novels Historical novels Secker & Warburg books {{1990s-hist-novel-stub